Guy Wilks

British rally driver (born 1981)

Guy Wilks

Guy before the start of the 2010 Rally Scotland

Nationality|  British
Born|  (1981-01-22) 22 January 1981 (age 41)
FIA World Rallycross Championship career
Debut season| 2015
Current team| LOCO Energy World RX
Car number| 100
Former teams| JRM Racing
Starts| 13
Wins| 0
Podiums| 0
Best finish| 15th in 2017
| World Rally Championship record

Active years| 2002–2008
Teams| Skoda, Mitsubishi, Ford, Suzuki
Rallies| 45
Championships| 0
Rally wins| 0
Podiums| 0
Stage wins| 0
Total points| 3
First rally| 2002 Swedish Rally
Last rally| 2008 Rally GB

Guy Wilks (born 22 January 1981) is a British rally driver. Wilks started rallying at the age of 19, but currently drives for JRM in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. In 2011 Wilks drove for Peugeot UK in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. In 2012 he did not compete.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Career
* 2 Racing record
* 2.1 Complete WRC results
* 2.2 JWRC results
* 2.3 PWRC results
* 2.4 Complete IRC results
* 2.5 Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results
* 2.5.1 Supercar
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Career[edit]

Wilks driving his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution at the 2007 Wales Rally GB.

Wilks who was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham became Ford Ka Junior Champion in 2000 in his first year in the sport, graduating within the Ford 'Ladder of Opportunity' scheme to the Puma 1400 series for 2001. He finished second in the championship. The following year Wilks entered the British Rally Championship (BRC) in a Super 1600 specification Puma, finishing fifth overall in the championship and third in the British Super1600 Rally Championship. In 2003 Wilks competed in the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) driving a Ford Puma prepared by Chris Birkbeck Motorsport finishing seventh in the standings. Wilks missed out on an opportunity to join the Subaru World Rally Team for the 2004 season, as he had signed a contract with Suzuki.

For 2004 Wilks made the switch from Ford to a works entry in the JWRC with Suzuki driving an Ignis alongside Per-Gunnar Andersson. Over the next three years Wilks won five rallies and finished second in the JWRC in 2005. Wins included his first JWRC victory at the Acropolis Rally in 2004 and Rally GB in the same year. During his time driving for Suzuki Wilks also won the British Super 1600 title and British Junior title in 2005.

Wilks split with Suzuki at the end of 2006 as they moved their focus to a full-fledged enter in World Rally Championship (WRC). In 2007 Wilks joined the Mitsubishi Motors UK Works team driving a Group N specification Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX in the BRC. Over the next two years Wilks won eight rallies and the BRC title outright.[2]

In addition to the BRC in 2007, Wilks also competed in a number of WRC events with Mobil 1 support allowing him to make his World Rally Car debut in Norway driving a Ford Focus 03 WRC. In total he competed in seven events with a sixth place in Rally Ireland his best finish in a Subaru S11 WRC.

Wilks in the Škoda Fabia at the 2010 Rally Scotland.

2008 saw Wilks supplement his BRC commitments with several outings in a Honda Civic Type R R3 rally car for Italy's JAS Motorsport.

Wilks made the switch in 2009 to S2000 class rallying with Mellors Elliot Motorsport driving a Proton Satria Neo Super 2000 car in the Pirelli International Rally. Then, on 6 June 2009, Proton announced an entry for Wilks in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC). He competed in six events with Proton before making the switch to drive for Škoda UK in Rally Scotland which he won.

On 12 January 2010, it was announced that Wilks would compete on selected rounds of the 2010 IRC driving a Škoda Fabia S2000 for Škoda UK. In the first four rallies of the season, Guy finished 6th in Rallye Monte-Carlo, 2nd in Rally Internacional de Curitiba, 2nd in Rally Argentina and 3rd in Rally Islas Canarias.

During the first stage of the 2010 Rally d'Italia Sardegna Wilks crashed his Škoda and was flown to hospital after reporting pains in his lower back.[3] Hospital checks found the Wilks had fractures to his first and second lumbar vertebrae.[4] The injury meant that Wilks missed three events on the IRC Calendar making a comeback at the Barum Czech Rally Zlín at the end of August.[5]

It was confirmed that Wilks, who finished the year in sixth overall in the championship, would make the switch from Škoda to the Kronos Racing run Peugeot UK Team for the 2011 IRC.[1]

## Racing record[edit]

### Complete WRC results[edit]

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Year  | Entrant  | Car  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | 10  | 11  | 12  | 13  | 14  | 15  | 16  | WDC  | Points

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2002 | Guy Wilks  | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI | MON | SWE
Ret | FRA | ESP | CYP | ARG | GRE | KEN | FIN |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | NC  | 0
Ford Puma S1600 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | GER
Ret | ITA | NZL | AUS | GBR
29 |  |
2003 | Guy Wilks  | Ford Puma S1600 | MON
Ret | SWE | TUR
18 | NZL | ARG | GRE
33 | CYP | GER | FIN
24 | AUS | ITA
28 | FRA | ESP
33 | GBR
Ret |  |  | NC  | 0
2004 | Guy Wilks  | Suzuki Ignis S1600 | MON
Ret | SWE | MEX | NZL | CYP | GRE
12 | TUR
13 | ARG | FIN
Ret | GER | JPN | GBR
18 | ITA
11 | FRA | ESP
Ret | AUS | NC  | 0
2005 | Guy Wilks  | Suzuki Ignis S1600 | MON
19 | SWE
22 | MEX
11 | NZL
27 | ITA
23 | CYP
29 | TUR
52 | GRE
17 | ARG |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | NC  | 0
Suzuki Swift S1600 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | FIN
18 | GER
15 | GBR
32 | JPN
17 | FRA | ESP
Ret | AUS
2006 | Guy Wilks  | Suzuki Swift S1600 | MON | SWE
38 | MEX | ESP | FRA | ARG
19 | ITA
26 | GRE | GER | FIN
15 | JPN | CYP | TUR
19 | AUS | NZL | GBR
52 | NC  | 0
2007 | Ramsport  | Ford Focus RS WRC 04 | MON | SWE | NOR
Ret | MEX | POR
Ret | ARG | ITA | GRE
9 | FIN
9 | GER
10 | NZL | ESP | FRA | JPN |  |  | 18th  | 3
Guy Wilks  | Subaru Impreza WRC 05 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | IRE
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Mitsubishi Motors UK  | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | GBR

2008 | JAS Motorsport | Honda Civic Type-R R3  | MON | SWE | MEX | ARG | JOR | ITA | GRE | TUR | FIN
18 | GER | NZL | ESP | FRA | JPN |  |  | NC  | 0
Mitsubishi Motors UK  | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | GBR
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### JWRC results[edit]

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Year  | Entrant  | Car  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | JWRC  | Points

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2003 | Guy Wilks  | Ford Puma S1600 | MON
Ret | TUR
3 | GRE
6 | FIN
3 | ITA
6 | ESP
11 | GBR
Ret |  |  | 7th  | 18
2004 | Guy Wilks  | Suzuki Ignis S1600 | MON
Ret | GRE
1 | TUR
3 | FIN
Ret | GBR
1 | ITA
2 | ESP
Ret |  |  | 3rd | 34
2005 | Guy Wilks  | Suzuki Ignis S1600 | MON
7 | MEX
1 | ITA
6 | GRE
2 |  |  |  |  |  | 2nd | 35
Suzuki Swift S1600 |  |  |  |  | FIN
3 | GER
3 | FRA | ESP
Ret |
2006 | Guy Wilks  | Suzuki Swift S1600 | SWE
9 | ESP | FRA | ARG
1 | ITA
8 | GER | FIN
1 | TUR
4 | GBR
11 | 4th  | 26

### PWRC results[edit]

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Year  | Entrant  | Car  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | PWRC  | Points

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2007 | Mitsubishi Motors UK  | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | SWE | MEX | ARG | GRE | NZL | JPN | IRE | GBR
1 | 12th  | 10
2008 | Mitsubishi Motors UK  | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | SWE | ARG | GRE | TUR | FIN | NZL | JPN | GBR
3 | 18th  | 6

### Complete IRC results[edit]

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Year  | Entrant  | Car  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | 10  | 11  | 12  | WDC  | Points

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2009 | Mellors Elliot Motorsport  | Proton Satria Neo S2000 | MON | BRA | KEN | POR | BEL
Ret | RUS
5 | POR
11 | CZE
Ret | ESP
22 | ITA
13 |  |  | 7th  | 15
Philip Pugh  | Škoda Fabia S2000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | SCO
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2010 | Škoda UK | Škoda Fabia S2000 | MON
6 | CUR
2 | ARG
2 | CAN
3 | SAR
Ret | YPR
| AZO
| MAD
| ZLI
7 | SAN
Ret | SCO
Ret | CYP
| 6th  | 27
2011 | Peugeot UK | Peugeot 207 S2000 | MON
3 | CAN
5 | COR
Ret | YAL
5 | YPR
4 | AZO
Ret | ZLI
Ret | MEC
Ret | SAN
Ret | SCO
Ret | CYP |  | 7th  | 47

### Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results[edit]

(key)

#### Supercar[edit]

Year  | Entrant  | Car  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | 10  | 11  | 12  | 13  | WRX  | Points

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2015 | JRM Racing | Mini Countryman RX | POR | HOC | BEL | GBR
6 | GER
| SWE
| CAN
| NOR
| FRA
33 | BAR
| TUR
| ITA
| ARG
| 23rd  | 14
2016 | Guy Wilks  | Ford Fiesta ST | POR
| HOC
| BEL
| GBR
18 | NOR
| SWE
| CAN
| FRA
|  |  |  |  |  | 23rd  | 3
JRM Racing | Mini Countryman RX |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | BAR
13 | LAT
14 | GER
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2017 | LOCO Energy World RX  | Volkswagen Polo | BAR
7 | POR
16 | HOC
19 | BEL
14 | GBR
14 | NOR
17 | SWE
20 | CAN
15 | FRA
| LAT
| GER
| RSA
|  | 15th  | 21

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Peugeot UK IRC chance for ace Wilks". ircseries.com. Intercontinental Rally Challenge. 29 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
2. ^ Wilks and Mitsubishi win British Rally Championship for second year running[permanent dead link] BRC Press Release
3. ^ "Wilks suffers bruising in crash on SS1". www.ircseries.com. Intercontinental Rally Challenge. 5 June 2010. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
4. ^ "Wilks continues recovery in hospital". Ircseries.com. 6 June 2010. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
5. ^ "Wilks to mark comeback with Czech test". Ircseries.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2010.

## External links[edit]

* Guy Wilks Official Site
* IRC Official Site

Awards and achievements

Preceded by

Martin Rowe

|  Autosport
National Rally Driver of the Year
2004  | Succeeded by

Mark Higgins

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* e

Teams and drivers competing in the 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship

| Comtoyou Racing| EKS Audi Sport| GC Kompetition| GRX Taneco Team| Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier

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* 67\. François Duval

* 5\. Mattias Ekström
* 13\. Andreas Bakkerud

* 36\. Guerlain Chicherit
* 74\. Jérôme Grosset-Janin

* 7\. Timur Timerzyanov
* 68\. Niclas Grönholm

* 84\. "Knapick"

| Marklund Motorsport| MJP Racing Team Austria| Oliver Bennett| Olsbergs MSE| PSRX Volkswagen Sweden

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* 24\. Tommy Rustad
* 92\. Anton Marklund

* 31\. Max Pucher
* 32\. Alexander Wurz
* 57\. Toomas Heikkinen
* 177\. Andrew Jordan

* 42\. Oliver Bennett

* 4\. Robin Larsson
* 96\. Kevin Eriksson

* 1\. Johan Kristoffersson
* 11\. Petter Solberg

| Sébastien Loeb Racing| STARD| Team Peugeot Total

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* 66\. Grégoire Demoustier

* 6\. Jānis Baumanis
* 58\. Ma Qinghua
* 60\. Joni-Pekka Rajala

* 9\. Sébastien Loeb
* 21\. Timmy Hansen
* 71\. Kevin Hansen

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Winners of Autosport's National Driver of the Year

Racing winner|

* 1982: Tommy Byrne
* 1983: Martin Brundle
* 1984: Johnny Dumfries
* 1985: Andy Rouse
* 1986: Andy Wallace
* 1987: Johnny Herbert
* 1988: JJ Lehto
* 1989: Allan McNish
* 1990: Robb Gravett
* 1991: David Coulthard
* 1992: Tim Harvey
* 1993: Kelvin Burt
* 1994: Gabriele Tarquini
* 1995: John Cleland
* 1996: Frank Biela
* 1997: Alain Menu
* 1998: Rickard Rydell
* 1999: Laurent Aïello
* 2000: Antônio Pizzonia
* 2001: Takuma Sato
* 2002: Robbie Kerr
* 2003: Nelson Piquet Jr.
* 2004: James Thompson
* 2005: Matt Neal
* 2006: Mike Conway
* 2007: Jason Plato

Rally winner|

* 1982: Malcolm Patrick
* 1983: Darryl Weidner
* 1984: David Llewellin
* 1985: Mark Lovell
* 1986: Ken Wood
* 1987: Louise Aitken-Walker
* 1988: Malcolm Wilson
* 1989–90: David Llewellin
* 1991–92: Colin McRae
* 1993: Richard Burns
* 1994: Malcolm Wilson
* 1995: Alister McRae
* 1996: Gwyndaf Evans
* 1997: Mark Higgins
* 1998: Martin Rowe
* 1999: Tapio Laukkanen
* 2000: Mark Higgins
* 2001–02: Justin Dale
* 2003: Martin Rowe
* 2004: Guy Wilks
* 2005–07: Mark Higgins

Combined winner|

* 2008: Oliver Turvey
* 2009: Colin Turkington
* 2010: Jason Plato
* 2011: Matt Neal
* 2012: Gordon Shedden
* 2013: Andrew Jordan
* 2014: Colin Turkington
* 2015–16: Gordon Shedden
* 2017: Lando Norris
* 2018: Dan Ticktum
* 2019: Colin Turkington
* 2020: Harry King

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